With the increase in sports cable channels (Lakers, Dodgers, ESPN partnering with Texas), there is lots of airtime to fill with content. As we remember from the early days of ESPN, GolfChannel, it isn't always the most glorious of content.

So instead of showing ''golf'' at the LAST Q SCHOOL, the CG on this the last day, is showing AN EXTRA HOUR of people in ties talking to players about how they played, instead of, you know, actually showing them playing. That is really a step in the right direction, production wise.

Who came up with this? The people who are in charge of The Old Course?

Harv, if I'm not mistaken the PGA Tour gave e GC a directive that tour school would not go out with a televised bang. The Tour doesn't want any more scrutiny about "the end" of tour school as we know it. They want to sneak out of town under the cover of darkness like the Colts did back in the day....

So, while the GC deserves the skewering we routinely give them, this one is not on them -- it's on Flinchem.